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Report: PSG the best-paid team in global sport with average weekly wage of £101,898

Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters

It's raining Euros at the Parc des Princes thanks to the oil-funded Qatar Sports Investments.

Sportingintelligence published their Global Sports Salaries Survey for 2015 on Wednesday, determining that Paris Saint-Germain are the best-paid team in global sport.

Covering 333 teams from 17 leagues in 13 countries, the annual report calculated that the average first-team pay at PSG, who clinched their third consecutive Ligue 1 title on Saturday, is £5.3 million per year, or a weekly wage of £101,898.

Real Madrid rank second in the survey with an average first-team pay of £5.04 million per year, while Manchester City, Barcelona and the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball rounded out the top five.

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